I observe three basic types of people working in the IT field: kings, sages, and cogs. The King The king is one who has complete control over how they are going to orient a given IT shop. He creates strategy and manages the implementation of that strategy. Most importantly, he can come up with his own ideas and…

Education Building Your Lab You Are Your Projects Practicing with Bounties Have a Presence On Certifications Making Contributions Networking With Others Conferences Responding to CFPs Landing Your First Job Mastering Professionalism Understanding the Business Having Passion Becoming Guru I’ve been doing Information Security (now called Cybersecurity by many) for around 20 years now, and I’ve spent most of…

I say yes. Martin McKeay from Network Security Blog disagrees. He writes: I kind of like Daniel Miessler’s writing and think he has some good posts, but he totally misses the point of the CISSP when he complains about CISSPs who can’t program a home network. The CISSP isn’t aimed at testing someone’s ability to program their Linksys…

A recent poster in an information security forum asked what it takes to succeed in the information security field. Having met with moderate success in the field myself, I decided to offer a few of my own thoughts on the matter: Be Passionate About It You can’t get to the top if you don’t truly love what you…

With my recent attainment of the GSEC credential, I’ve had some discussions about how it compares to the CISSP in terms of difficulty and respectability. Here is one such discussion from a forum I frequent.: The main reason the CISSP in more respected is because of the standards the ISC2 has established, such as proving the identification of…